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CVE-2021-20179

Public on 2021-03-15
Modified on 2021-04-21
Description

A flaw was found in pki-core. An attacker who has successfully compromised a key could use this flaw to renew the corresponding certificate over and over again, as long as it is not explicitly revoked. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity.

Severity
Important
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CVSS v3 Base Score
8.1
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 2 - Core pki-core 2021-04-20 17:55 ALAS2-2021-1630

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 5.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N